Hi Everyone,
We trialed the EBSCO version a while back. While I didn't get much of a response
either way from students and faculty, I didn't see much if any of an advantage to
switching to EBSCO other than familiarity with the interface. Do we decided to stick with
the original platform. The existing APh interface seems to work well enough for students
and faculty and it does now have features such as link resolution. Its shortcomings have
more to do with the underlying index then the interface and these largely resurface in
EBSCO, in some cases in more marked form-I got the impression the database was being
shoe-horned into the EBSCO interface and not everything meshed very well, though this
could have improved subsequently
Best,
Colin McCaffrey
Classics Librarian
Yale Classics
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Colin
From: Maria Tourna [mailto:mtourna.blegen@ascsa.edu.gr]
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Subject: RE: L'Année philologique question
Dear Rhea,
We also did a trial (of the EBSCO platform) three years ago and library users who sent
their feedback, were in favor of keeping the original platform. "Easier to
search" and to "order the results by date of publication" were some of the
comments in favor of "L' année" original interface. Given the fact that the
original platform is updated daily, I don't see us moving to the EBSCO interface any
time soon.
Best,
Maria
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From: Lesage, Rhea Karabelas [mailto:karabel@fas.harvard.edu]
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Subject: L'Année philologique question
Dear colleagues,
Since EBSCO only receives annual updates from the publisher, Harvard chose to stay with
the original platform that is updated daily. Our subscription is up for renewal soon. Do
users feel that the preferred EBSCO interface makes up for the considerable lag? I'd
welcome feedback either on or off list.
Many thanks!
Rhea
Rhea K. Lesage
Librarian for Hellenic Studies and Coordinator for the Classics
Collection Development
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Harvard College Library
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